Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.
Audrie & Daisy is a sobering and emotionally resonant documentary that effectively humanizes its subjects while exposing systemic failures in how sexual assault cases involving minors are handled. The storytelling is competent and the subject matter is handled with sensitivity, though the structure feels somewhat conventional for the true-crime documentary genre. There is no traditional 'acting' per se, but interview subjects and participants vary in their on-screen presence and authenticity. The cinematography is functional and workmanlike — typical of Netflix documentary fare without distinctive visual choices. The film covers important ground around rape culture and cyberbullying but occupies familiar documentary territory, offering little formal innovation. The ending carries emotional weight, particularly given Daisy Coleman's tragic subsequent suicide, though at the time of release it offered a cautiously hopeful but inconclusive close that felt honest rather than artificially resolved.